2026-2027 ORGAN CONCERT SEASON

The AOTM, the Friends of the Organ of the Maguelone Street Temple in Montpellier, after the 11 concerts dedicated to the complete organ works of BACH, which were met with great success, is pleased to share the program for the 6 concerts of its 2026/2027 season "Saturdays of the Organ," which will begin on Saturday, October 17 at 5 PM.

You will find some of the great current names in organ music, both French and international, in very varied programs: organ recitals, organ and percussion, four-hand organ, organ and saxophone, featuring composers and music styles ranging from the Baroque period to contemporary times and even jazz.

Here are the details:

Saturday, October 17, 2026 – 5 PM Jan Lehtola — organist of the Helsinki Philharmonic "Forms and Metamorphoses" — Mendelssohn, Fauré, Liszt, Saari, Antonini. In partnership with Musiques Sacrées and Orgue en Avignon

Saturday, November 21, 2026 – 5 PM Paul Goussot — titular organist of the Don Bedos organ at the Sainte-Croix Abbey in Bordeaux "Bach-Handel, a Missed Encounter" — Bach, Handel, improvisations

Saturday, December 19, 2026 – 5 PM Yves Rechsteiner, organ & Henri-Charles Caget, percussion — Toulouse, Lyon "Enter the Dance" — Rameau, Oldfield

Saturday, January 16, 2027 – 5 PM Bernard Foccroulle — concert artist, composer, Brussels "Faces of Baroque Europe" — Valente, C. de Arauxo, Couperin, Buxtehude, Boëhm, Bach

Saturday, February 20, 2027 – 5 PM Éric Lebrun & Marie-Ange Leurent — four-hand organ, Paris "A Beautiful Era" — Viardot, Fauré, Debussy, Saint-Saëns: The Carnival of the Animals

Saturday, March 13, 2027 – 5 PM Benjamin Righetti, organ & Antoine Auberson, saxophone — Lausanne (Switzerland) "Transhumances" — Bach, Righetti

Free entry - contribution to expenses

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